Being Adivasi: Existence, Entitlements, Exclusion, edited by Abhay Xaxa and Ganesh Devy, contains 11 essays on various themes ranging from constitutional and legal measures from “the Adivasi question” ...

Five years after the Forest Rights Act (FRA) was passed in 2006, India’s first village secured community forest rights. That village, Mendha Lekha, quickly built a thriving, resilient local economy on ...

“History had a place for Adivasis, but it slowly disappeared,” says Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren, highlighting the long and continuous fight for Adivasis to gain recognition around the world.

Growing up as an Adivasi woman in a mixed-caste Hindu community in Jharkhand, I was always aware of the triple jeopardy I faced. First, as a woman in general, second as an Adivasi in a caste structure ...

The Bangladesh Adivasi Forum has put forward 12 demands, including constitutional recognition for Adivasi communities, and the arrest of those responsible for recent attacks on Adivasi students and ...

Sri Lanka’s indigenous Adivasi community—the Vedda people—have historically maintained a diet of kurakkan roti and game meat. They are also known to have various indigenous cures and treatments for ...

In 1927, the colonial British government announced a revision in the land tax rate in the Bardoli taluka of Surat district in South Gujarat. Citing factors such as increased land prices and ...

Jacinta Kerketta, a writer of Kurukhar Adivasi origin, is a powerful poet and journalist who advocates for the environment, women's issues and Adivasi rights. It is easy to assume that Jacinta ...

Soren’s crime is not only that he is part of the opposition, but that as an Adivasi, he is irreverent and belligerent to the powers that be. Through his impassioned no-confidence motion speech, he ...

Analyses of whole-genome sequence data of urban Sinhalese and two indigenous Adivasi clans in Sri Lanka, which live in geographically separated regions in the country, have shed light on the migratory ...